An explanation of why the UK is seeing a rise in inequality – not just income, but also wealth, geographical and age inequality.
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The UK is often seen as a prosperous and equal society, but the reality is that inequality is a major issue in Britain. In recent years, the gap between the richest and poorest has grown significantly, creating an unequal Britain. This article will explain the causes and effects of the UK’s inequality crisis.
The UK’s inequality crisis can be traced back to the 1980s, when the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher implemented a series of policies known as Thatcherism. These policies aimed to reduce the role of the state in the economy, and to reduce public spending. As a result, the gap between the rich and the poor began to widen.
The most obvious cause of inequality in the UK is income inequality. In the UK, the top 10% of earners take home almost half of all income, while the bottom 10% take home just 3%. This means that the richest people in the UK are getting richer, while the poorest are getting poorer.
The UK’s inequality crisis has a number of effects. One of the most obvious is the increasing levels of poverty in the UK. In 2019, 14 million people were living in poverty, with 4 million of those living in “absolute poverty”. This means that they were unable to afford basic necessities such as food and shelter.
The UK’s inequality crisis also has a significant impact on health. Studies have shown that people living in the most deprived areas are more likely to suffer from poor health, and are at a greater risk of developing chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease.
Finally, inequality in the UK has a negative impact on social mobility. Those from poorer backgrounds are less likely to go to university, and are therefore less likely to get well-paid jobs. This means that they are less likely to escape poverty and move up the social ladder.
The UK’s inequality crisis is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. In order to reduce inequality, the government needs to invest in education and training, and to create more job opportunities for those from poorer backgrounds. It is also important to ensure that the wealthiest in society pay their fair share of taxes, so that the money can be used to benefit those in need.
A look at UK's economic decline and why we are all getting worse off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V5pkSvyK0g
So is it about the U.K. or Britain…?
This is the most important issue facing the UK today but it will be brushed under the carpet as long as possible. Maybe the next generation will do something about it but I'm not holding my breath…
Wfh the four day workers getting paid for 5,the high paid workers who are so up there own backsides,power to the real workers the key workings during covid the great devide of inequality goes on,planet earth the turd outlet
Inequality in the UK is like cancer destroying poor people
This is so informative. Thank you.
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The UK has got more service sectors in its economy, which naturally causes inequality in terms of household income. For example when guys worked in a factory as labourer, their pay differences won't be large. But if the two guys singers, then their pay gap could be astronomical, and rightly so. Equaler and poorer vs. inequal and vibrant, there is no right and wrong. But politicians always use "EQUAL" as a slogan to hoover votes from whose who's made wrong life decisions and bearing consequences.
All you are doing is extracting odd figures and spinning them into some narrative.
Pensioners are now better off simply because they mostly own their home and do not pay rent like they did a generation ago.
The poor having a larger gap between them and average is down to the average doing mush better and is a good thing.
You seem to forget that all the benefits and support the poor get is paid for by the tax paid by the better off and from business profits.
The better off most of us are means we can afford to support the poor more.
It is the same dilemma in Australia.
You are great, I've been waiting for a channel like this.
If you shrink the size of the state at the same time as private sector investment is falling then your GDP can only fall and Keep falling
My grandparents bought their terraced house, my parents bought a nice semi in a village and we have a nice detached house. I did wonder, about 10 years ago, how can this carry on. Our adult children are renting. I hope we don’t need to have to move to a care home, so that our children can inherit our house
It's global. The wealthy and corporations aided by their self interested short sighted for personal financial, power and political gain political puppets have created a system designed specifically to advantage them and screw the workers.
The answer of the wealthy to everything is to always to cut wages and conditions further, make people work harder and longer for less and create more insure job's.
But what if we import even more cheap labor? Maybe the inequality will decrease?
you are conflating income inequality with wealth inequality, also the top 1% of income earners with the top 1% wealthiest people (most of whom don't work for a salary and their gains are typically not accounted for as income)
the main problem is extortionate property prices as a result of both tight demand relative to supply and the financialisation of housing into an investment vehicle, and this is only tangentially related to inequality in the sense that although it's thanks to the existence of a significant pool of ultra-wealthy investors that housing can stay so expensive, you wouldn't even need them for it to be the case as you'd only need to have an attractive housing-as-finance vehicle system and the ultra-wealthy would come from abroad, as they do
the reality is that inequality – particularly the extreme inequality that exists in access to housing – is not the cause but a symptom of a broken housing market that cannot be sorted by raiding the rich or any other lefty "solution" stemming from a Dickensian view of Britain eyeing to redistribute capital by state force; tory/labour socialism won't work either (raiding the taxpayer to prop the housing market) but that will certainly be done because the majority of the MPs are landlords and have multiple properties, and can claim expenses on their mortgages
Is this inequality the result of an immigration and refugee policy that brings tens of thousands of useless, poor unskilled foreigners to Britain all of which are seeking tax payer dollars!!!
In a worldwide exclusive, the SKWAWKBOX can reveal reports that not only did Nigel Farage apply for a German passport, but he did so on the day after the EU referendum – and is under police investigation for allegedly providing false information.
Mr Farage was reported to the police by a concerned German citizen with an interest in British politics, who knew of the application and believed it could not have been made legitimately.
German law normally requires 8 years residency – with only minimal absences – in order to qualify for a passport. For those with a German spouse – Mr Farage’s wife is German – the length of residency is reduced to 3 years’ continual residency. Mr Farage did not, according to the complainant, meet those requirements but, on the application form, used the Hamburg address of a relative of his wife to claim residency.
The fact of the application and of the subsequent allegation and police investigation can be found in these confirmations from Hamburg police to the complainant – the first being the initial confirmation of receipt and case number and the second a response to a request for an update:
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The SKWAWKBOX has spoken to the Hamburg police station PK24 and, while unwilling to discuss details of the case, the officer confirmed that the case reference, which is highlighted in the first image above, concerns a live and ongoing case 3 months after the complaint.
The ongoing police case puts beyond doubt the question of whether Nigel Farage made an application for a German passport.
The information from the complainant makes clear that he did so immediately after the EU referendum, which means that while celebrating his ‘win’ to take Britain out of the EU, he was making plans to retain EU citizenship.
Postscript [22 Apr 2019]
Last year, Farage admitted in an interview with former LibDem leader Nick Clegg that two of his children have German passports.
However, when asked directly, after the SKWAWKBOX exclusive, whether he possessed a German passport himself Farage did not deny it – and well over a year after the exclusive he still had not answered, according to his questioner, peer Andrew Adonis:
A search for any reference to him denying it since turned up no positive results. The SKWAWKBOX contacted Nigel Farage again to ask for confirmation whether he holds a German passport. He did not respond by the time of publication.
Sir, I don't understand what you mean about "Global tax co-operations to prevent tax avoidance". Taxes are already very high in the UK.
For litterally my entire life that I can remeber it feels like there has been a slow-ish decline. Turns out its becuse there was/is.
If mainstream media wanted to talk bout something important theyd talk bout this and climate change
What a fallen, broken & evil world we live in…..and it's only going to get worse. 🙁 🙁 🙁